From 731f6c863b9e280d55d809a2d9a8435f468e9865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Droettboom <mdboom@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:59:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #2425: setters without arguments should not be added to
 the list of parameters

---
 lib/matplotlib/artist.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/artist.py b/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
index 2e06d200bc13..afb950882b4a 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import division, print_function
 import re
 import warnings
+import inspect
 import matplotlib
 import matplotlib.cbook as cbook
 from matplotlib import docstring, rcParams
@@ -948,6 +949,8 @@ def _get_setters_and_targets(self):
             o = getattr(self.o, name)
             if not callable(o):
                 continue
+            if len(inspect.getargspec(o)[0]) < 2:
+                continue
             func = o
             if self.is_alias(func):
                 continue